An Explainable Multi-view Semantic Fusion Model for Multimodal Fake News Detection

The existing models have been achieved great success in capturing and fusing miltimodal semantics of news. However, they paid more attention to the global information, ignoring the interactions of global and local semantics and the inconsistency between different modalities. Therefore, we propose an explainable multi-view semantic fusion model (EMSFM), where we aggregate the important inconsistent semantics from local and global views to compensate the global information. Inspired by various forms of artificial fake news and real news, we summarize four views of multimodal correlation: consistency and inconsistency in the local and global views. Integrating these four views, our EMSFM can interpretatively establish global and local fusion between consistent and inconsistent semantics in multimodal relations for fake news detection. The extensive experimental results show that the EMSFM can improve the performance of multimodal fake news detection and provide a novel paradigm for explainable multi-view semantic fusion.